 video is to share with each other to recognize the investment that people have made in us. If you can actually recognize someone, or maybe it could be multiple people who took their time, who invested, who added something to your life, it could be the most unlikely of sources. But if you would like to share that with each other, I think that will be very useful. And so you could just probably mention one person in one attribute, one instance of what they did to add to your life, you know, what they invested in, how they invested in your life. And well, if there's any anything that you can share about what you have done, to invest in the lives of others, maybe just one example. So want of time, just share one thing, okay, this is what I did, or let it be something specific. Well, you can always say, okay, I prayed for this person, that's an investment, that's a good investment. So you can mention that, I pray for this person every day, from this time to this time, that's a great investment. Or if there's anything that's specific that you've that you do, or you've done, you continue to do, you know, you can mention that. So it's, it'll be a kind of learning for the others in the group, in your group, to also to, to, to find out that, oh, okay, so this is something that I can do, right, also to expand their understanding, okay, here's something that I can do. Here are these opportunities. Oh, yeah, I know such a person who's connected to my life. So maybe I can do this. So, so if you can share, I think that'll be time well spent. So we'll take about maybe 10, maybe 10 or 15 minutes, 15 minutes, 12 minutes, right, 12 minutes to do that. I think last time we did about 12 minutes. So each person can share for a minute, right, you just do it quickly, and be mindful that the other person also needs to share. So you can take about maybe two to three minutes, and then, you know, you can share, just find out how many people are there in your group. Okay, so I'm just going to do a random shuffle, of course, and, and ask you to do this. Okay, so there'll be, I think, five groups. Let me just set the time. I'm just going to put about 14 minutes, because I realized it takes some time for, you know, the groups to form. The timer just starts. Okay, ready? Oh, you guys are not in any group yet? Okay, unassigned, okay, okay, okay. I'm not sure why that happens. Kennedy is also unassigned. Okay, let me just put you guys in a different group. Okay, Thayesh is assigned to break out one, but not moved there yet. Nisha, were you in some group, or your connection got cut or something? No, my connection was a little bad, so I just joined. Oh, I see, okay, okay. I'll just put you in another group, which is a smaller group. Okay, I'll just put you there. Just one second. Hi, Simran. I think you're, you got disconnected? Yes, sir, network problem, I think. Network problem, is it? Okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, let me just put you in one group. Okay, there's not much time left. Actually, it'll get over in, let's say four minutes, but you can be part of that group and, you know, okay, so I'll just put you in a group one second. Okay, sir. Yeah, okay, I'm not able to see your, yeah, that's it. I'm sorry, Simran, I'm not able to connect you to any group. Okay, sir, no problem. No problem, okay, okay. Anyway, it'll just end in three minutes, if you can just wait. Yes, sir. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Thank you. All right. Hey, welcome back everyone. I'm sorry, some of you got disconnected from the call. I hope you were able to get back into the groups. I hope you had sufficient time. I know Chris was in a group, a room by himself sometime. Okay, so can we just quickly have maybe, you know, I think we've got four groups, maybe one from each group. If you can just share, you know, some learnings from this, you know, about others investing in us and us investing in others, some learnings, you know, maybe you can just share one point or two points that would be one learning or two learnings, that would be nice. So breakout group, room one, who was there? Yeah, in room one, it was myself, Abhishek, Nisha, Aisha and Simran. Okay, okay. Simran couldn't share because she got disconnected and only at the end. Yeah, yeah. Opportunity to share. Okay. We had a good time discussing and everybody shared most of the aspects on both ends on investing in others and someone investing in them. Some points were like that praying for others and also especially when Abhishek shared that he moved as a new believer into the church. Simran really took time to explain him how to pray and how to get along in the church that played a significant role in his life. Likewise, Aisha shared about how her mentor has helped her. So yeah, we had a good time discussing both these. Any particular thing about investing in others, you know, what does it take or you know, anything pertinent that, you know, that you observed, like, is it convenient? Is it, you know, comfortable about investing in others? Anything that, any common thread? Yeah, sure. Go ahead, Rupa. First thing is that the other person should be willing and we should be in investing, we should know what is the need of the person and the potential of the person so that we can invest into it and also it's not very, sometimes it takes time, it takes patience, it takes a long suffering when we want to, it should be only when we are committed and do it consistently can we invest in people's life and when we love that person, want to see that their potential be put into complete use only can we do that. I think that's what I came to my mind, sir, when you said that. Thank you. Commitment being consistent and like you said, you know, the passion and attitude and also ability. I mean, these are three things that I, but John Smackel also talks about these things, I mean, I think in the lives of people, journey with them, do they have the passion and do they have the attitude and do they want to and then can they, you know, do they have the ability or should you, you know, is it, is it is the time now, you know, do they have the ability right now to make that journey. Yeah. So, yeah, so that's those are some things that came to my mind as well. Anyone else wants to share any other group? I think Mangi, were you in the same group as Rupa or Tharun, if you were in a different group, you could share. Maybe Chris would like to share. Sorry, tell your same group as Rupa. Okay. Chris, I think you were in a different group. Chris, you were in group number four, I think. Yeah, I learned the group a bit late. So, there was, say, Kennedy and Rita. And I think one of the things that came out is, I think definitely is that most of us had a close relative who would be invested in us. And I think it's really about, you know, not which really builds out, you know, that need to invest in it. And so, that would be a kind of like a 19. So, that came about in our group. I don't think we actually covered, I'm not sure about this, but I don't think we even covered the aspect of reinvesting in others. Maybe we missed half of that. Oh, I see. Okay. And yeah, so we just talked more about our... Others invested in us. I think the other thing that also comes quite naturally, I mean, I think from my side is, you know, some friends you have from school or from college. You know, it just sort of, you know, comes, you get close, you know, very naturally. And there is no sort of need to expect anything, but you just get close and I have a group of friends from college who I've had for quite a few years now. And there's, I mean, those, that part of one's life, you know, you can't do it instead of, you know, get the investment was there, but it came up naturally. And sometimes there are things that came up, therefore, I mean, an outcome would have been positive. Sometimes it was even negative, but it was still part of, you know, the maturity of maturing as people. Yeah. So, yeah, that's wonderful, you know, like an informal thing. So I guess, yeah, so you have both aspects to it, like an informal setting where you invest in people's lives. And this comes most naturally, you know, when it's friends or relatives. And also formal settings where you, you know, you invest in the lives of others. But you see that, you know, it's a different dynamic. And it's a different process, right? When compared to, you know, I'm just looking at it like it, you know, it's it's a different process because we are, we are not treating people as projects. But, you know, as human beings with emotions as feelings and everything. And as people who have the ups and downs. And, and I think the most beautiful aspect of it is, like from one, John Maxwell also shares like, you know, you're doing it without expecting anything in return, you know, you're that they will do anything for you. But you do it so that their lives can be that, you know, a little bit better. And of course, like what Rupa shared, it depends on their wanting to do something about it. They're wanting to change, wanting to put to practice. All that is also, also there. Yeah, so, yeah, so it's something. So I just wanted to just, just to encourage us, you know, to, to maybe ask the Lord to pray and ask the Lord and see, you know, to look to give us moments, right, where we can, it can be a one off thing, you know, it can be a random act of kindness, maybe act of generosity. You know, it can be a one off thing. But when you look at actually investment, you know, it's, it's, it's a long process, right? It's a, it's a lifelong thing, maybe. So to, to ask the Lord to say, okay, God, you know, is there anyone, is there a group, is there, you know, somewhat, is there just one person, it could be family, it could be, you know, people in church, it could be, you know, work kind of, you know, kind of a situation where environment where the Lord would just point out and say, okay, you know, this is someone who's ready, this is someone who's waiting, why don't you go ahead and, you know, build that rapport, build that trust and, you know, start giving into their lives, right? Not, you're not going to just unburden or download everything, you know, but it's really to, to build a relationship, right, to do life and, and in the process, invest in their lives, right? But in a formal sitting, I don't, Tarun, you're mentioning about, I think I heard about this from, you know, someone else, like, like you did this training after office hours on Microsoft Excel for people in office, or I don't know if it was here in Bangalore, I think, can you just share about that, you know, something? Yes, in fact, in the group on my turn, I shared the same thing. Oh, I see, okay, you did okay. Yeah, I remember when I was working in a, where I had to manage a quality team, they were not good with Excel. So, and Excel is very important for us to do analytics and to do work faster. And there I found many were not very good. So I offered that offer to train them on Saturday mornings. I told them whoever can come on Saturday mornings, it's going to be a free training. In fact, it just started with, like, three people joining over like, and I continued that for more than five months. And over a period of time, I had about 40 folks from the company joining every Saturday. And that really counted me even for my appraisal, when they asked me what value you added to the company. When I quoted this, no one could dispute because all these people who learned Excel, they really did well in their jobs. And that was a good investment that everybody considered. Yeah, amazing. You know, this was outside of office hours, outside of what was expected from the role, just went ahead and did it. That's, that's amazing. I think that's a, that's a great example, you know, what you can do professionally. And I'm sure I know the skill will stay with them, you know, throughout their life and praise God for that. Yeah. Yeah, Anita, you want to share something? Oh, yes, Pastor, to mention, I actually forgot, Tarun had last year, he had made one WhatsApp group just to enhance whoever was interested to enhance their vocabulary in English, whoever wanted to enhance their skills, English speaking skills. I got that also here invested in and that I had joined that. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah, doing that. Yeah. So the learning is mutual, right? Okay. You train them on Minitab. Okay. Wonderful. Thanks. I think, I think during the lockdown period, you did something on, yeah, I think what Anita was talking about about an English basic English course, and I think this was something more advanced than that in improving vocabulary. So that was good. So, yeah, so it can be a formal setting, it can be an informal setting, but what you do, you know, all that we are doing is, you know, passing on, right, basically passing on. And it's, so Tarun, I'm sure, you know, going on a Saturday morning is not what you would, you know, most people would want to do, you know, at work, you know, you had some five days of long hours. And so, you know, wanting to do another extra day with people, you know, same surroundings. Obviously, you know, you might, you must have had some reason to do that. So you want to share that, you know, maybe getting up on a Saturday morning, what went through your mind? What thoughts? Yeah, in fact, I was trying to be a good leader. And one thing that I learned is a good leader always invests in people to make a meaningful difference. And I couldn't think of a better way to invest than to really teach them genuinely what I learned. And I even told them that, you know, this, I'm doing it on a Saturday, because it should not be like a part of office hours, and that you know, we are consuming that time. And it's only for those who are interested genuinely who make it. And so when I did that, it motivated me after like, you know, initially, when I started, there were about three people for past two, three weeks. But later, it caught up so well, because they went and told others that they really learned a lot. And the kind of reports that they started sharing changed. And everybody wanted to learn. And I almost ran out of space, because I was running on a 30 people conference room and the office opened up saying you can use all the space you want. And literally standing and I used to do this training for about four hours on Saturdays. And they and I used to divide them in groups, give them exercises. So it was a mutual learning. And I learned a lot as well from them as I did. And they learned a lot. It was good. It caught the pace after I started. So starting was a difficult thing. But after I started, it was easy to go on. Okay, okay. And whether some days that you didn't want to do it, like, you know, your schedule, you know, everything. Yes, that happened after like few weeks when I had to travel once. And I asked a few guys who have already been learning if they would want to take up and they did that as well. I set up like two guys to do on a Saturday that I was not there. And they were glad to continue that. Oh, very nice. Wonderful. Chris was talking about the quiz. Yeah, I was part of the few quizzes during that time, the Bible quiz that we had. Maybe you should do it for the, you know, for the Bible college also. Informally, that was very interesting, the quizzes. Yeah, for those of you who are kind of, you know, thinking what this was about, we had some online quiz when the lockdown happened, like Tarun and Lina had moved to France. And, you know, we were all at home, you know, working from home. So this quiz was, I think you ran it for about a month or so, or a couple of months, I think. Yeah, we actually did about like 12 chapters. It was about three months. So pretty intense, you know, different round, very interesting, actually. And the depth to which, you know, we have one has to study to find out the answers. It was really good. So it was nice. Yeah, so, so all of us have something to give, you know, it may be, it may not be of this nature, like of what Tarun paid off, or, you know, anywhere else. But there's no need to, you know, compare and say, I need to do something on those lines. If it resonates, fine, you know, if there's something that you're saying, okay, I have this skill, and I can do it, that's fine. But, but if it's, you know, for example, I'm just, you know, I just felt like, you know, just, I just, I just reminded to share this that in the initial days of our marriage, I remember that my wife would take all our, you know, house helps as two people were coming. And then the people they know to a meeting, you know, like, I think a weekly meeting, like she was not conducting, someone else was conducting, but then she would take them, take them for that meeting. And, and some of them were born again, and some of them were, you know, really strengthened during that Bible study prayer time. And, and one of them, of course, continues to, you know, be part of our lives, and she comes and she's a strong believer. And recently, you know, she, she got, she took baptism, and she was very joyful. She did this, and she shared with us, she had a, you know, a long term addiction to, you know, a chewing pound, and, and she was, and she very joyfully testified saying, you know, taken baptism and chewing tobacco and all that. So she testified of that. So, so, you know, it can be a small thing, right? And, but it can have very big, big consequences, you know, fruitfulness in people's lives. And, and we don't have to do with the intent, we don't have to start doing this with the intention of, oh, it's going to be something big, need not be, but you just have the joy of serving others, just have the joy of sharing with us what you have, you know, giving what you have, and it will definitely make a, you know, difference in people's lives. Yeah. Okay, we have, I think, I guess we'll stop here. We have about 10 more minutes, but we'll stop here and we'll continue our next class. And next class we'll, we'll pick up from where we left and then also try and cover as much as possible on teamwork, right? So, and then probably next class and the other for one following we should be done, right? Okay, so we'll stop here. Thank you, everyone. Have a great weekend. See how you can be a blessing in someone's life, right? This weekend. God bless. Bye-bye. Thank you, Pastor. See you. Take care. Bye-bye. Thank you, Pastor. God bless you. See you later. Bye-bye. Thank you, Pastor.